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Serbia Urged to Come Clean on Journalists’ Surveillance

International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has called on the Serbian authorities to investigate how much surveillance goes on in the country - after the Serbian news agency Tanjug on February 16 published a response written by the Defence Minister to a never-published opinion piece by a former defence minister.

Pope Francis "unlikely" to canonize Stepinac - sources

The likelihood of Pope Francis canonizing Croatian Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac is low, Croatian media are reporting this week.

The Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List is citing an article published in the magazine Globus, that said most people journalist Darko Hudelist spoke with said Stepinac would not be be declared a saint.

Ruling in minister's lawsuit against weekly by end of year

A hearing was held at the Higher Court in Belgrade on Tuesday in the case of Nebojsa Stefanovic's lawsuit against a Belgrade-based weekly.

The Serbian interior minister, who is also a high-ranking official of the ruling SNS party, has sued the weekly NIN, its editor-in-chief, Milan Culibrk, and Sandra Petrusic, one of its reporters, over an article published earlier this year.

Serbian Defence Minister Sacked for Sexist Insult

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that Gasic can no longer remain in the government after his "reckless" comment about female journalists.

"We need to protect women in Serbia. It was a bad message for all women. A minister cannot afford to say that," Vucic told reporters, adding that Gasic is his personal friend and one of his most devoted ministers.